Post#219 » by jals » Fri Jun 17, 2022 4:42 pm
Curry in the last 4 years has really addressed his prior shortcomings by bulking up and becoming a significantly better finisher inside and just having more experience with the wide variety of strange defenses that are thrown at him. Now there's really no good strategy for defending him and he's also much less exploitable on the defensive end. While he's clearly not at his peak in terms of numbers that's partly because in 2015/16 people simply didn't know how to defend him. Cleveland started to lay that blueprint in the Finals (blitz the picks, be extremely physical off-ball and hope the refs let it go in the playoffs) and it's taken Curry a couple of years to adjust to counter that strategy. In a vacuum I think Curry now is a significantly more robust player than his MVP years. I'd put this edition of Curry above Magic as the best PG / highest team offensive impact ever and clearly a top 10 player all-time. Too bad for him that he didn't get here until later in his career, but with modern training it seems like primes are lasting longer so maybe he has time to really cement his overall career in the top 10 all-time (not sure he's there yet - but another run like this year and I'd have to put him there personally).